Recent content by ninnamyuk

You have just communicated some very telling information . You have never tried it and are basically just reiterating what you have heard others say without necessarily knowing how they came to those conclusions. The mathematical formulas that you allude to do not necessarily give an accurate...

Ignorance, poor marksmanship, and dogmatic propaganda have all played a role in inhibiting the use of 223 FMJs. I have seen deer and deer sized animals hit in marginally lethal areas of their anatomy with everything from 12 ga. slugs to magnum centerfire rifles to broadhead arrows travel...

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The point he validated was the terminal effect of 223 fmjs on deer. Where legal, as is the case in my state, there is no reason not to use this economical ammo on deer size game.

Texascowboy- thanks for helping validate my point.

If you are worried about saving deer meat with this caliber I would use a heavy bullet to lower the velocity and lessen the "splatter effect".

If the high shoulder shot causes sufficient trauma to the spine then it will kill faster. If however the bullet only breaks one shoulder the deer may run quite a distance especially if the bullet does not strike significant lung tissue or a large enough blood vessel. Dead center in the heart...

Dom, I could come up with a very extensive list of hunters names in my region who use 223 for caribou many of whom travel hundreds of miles by snowmachine and always come home with sledloads of meat. They do not do it as a stunt, they do it as an efficient means of harvesting meat. To many...

Perhaps you did not read my first post carefully enough wherein I said that I used them on caribou. I have seen nothing in the AK reg. book that prohibits their use. Most of what I have killed are cows and yearlings in the winter and they are approximately deer size. I would go so far as to say...

First of all I am assuming that MuddyCreek is not an illiterate moron and that he will read the hunting regs for the area he hunts. Where I hunt it is perfectly legal to use 223 fmjs and many people do, including myself for probably 20 years. I am not saying he should use larger caliber fmjs on...

Those wounds look pretty similar to the wounds I have seen so many times when butchering caribou shot with m193 ammo. Even 223 fmj is plenty lethal on deer size game as long as the velocity is high enough to make it wickedly destabilize and turn into a meat grinder. FMJs might even be better...